Automotive & Heavy Vehicles
Harvesting powerful
forestry solutions Ponsse is a global leader in the development and manufacture of powerful, multi-functional forestry machinery. Since its founding in Finland in 1970, the company has revolutionised the world’s logging industry, its methods and solutions. Today its powerful ‘Bear’ harvesters and unrivalled Bison transporters lead the field, as Philip Yorke reports.
In
1970, Finnish forestry entrepreneur Einari Vidgren searched to find forestry machines sufficiently powerful for his needs. Finding none available, he decided to build his own. His uniquely robust machines quickly made Ponsse a market leader in the ‘cutto-length’ method of tree harvesting. Today his remarkable success story continues with the launch of new, highly efficient solutions for more profitable harvesting.
Ponsse specialises in the production, sale and maintenance of forestry machines specifically designed for the cut-to-length method of harvesting as well as their related information systems. Innovation lies at the heart of the company’s business, which remains independent and family owned. From the outset, Ponsse has been dedicated to meeting the precise and challenging demands of the global forestry industry as dictated by forestry owners and operators worldwide. Industry Europe 23
